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The two Muskoka-area Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League Clubs will face off Jan. 25 in a pivotal battle for third place, their last meeting against each other this regular season. The first-place Bradford Rattlers remain undefeated with a flawless 32-0 record and the second-seeded Temiscaming Titans have a solid lock on that position with 57 points, 11 ahead of Bracebridge with only about eight games yet to play before the playoff rounds begin.
After a weekend that saw the Shield split their two games, the club now sits two points back of the Phantoms and if they can come out of their Jan. 21 game against Orangeville unscathed, the two clubs will be tied for third when they face off at 8 p.m. at the Centennial Centre Jan. 25. Results from the game on the 21st were too late for press time.
Shield head coach and general manager Dallyn Telford said he won't have much difficulty getting his club up for the game, saying it will be one of the more important battles waged this season.
On Jan. 18 the Shield travelled to Lefroy, where the Wave crashed down a solid late effort by the Gravenhurst-based club to take the game 6-5.
The Wave captured an early 2-0 lead, scoring both of their goals about 10 seconds apart with time running down in the first period. Lefroy went up by three at the opening of the second period, but a rush by the Shield drew them even by the period's half-way point with a 3-3 score. The two teams then traded markers, including a last-minute powerplay goal by the Wave to take a 5-4 advantage into the third. Lefroy added one more in the third while the Shield mustered one late to put pressure on the opposition, but couldn't add the leveler before time ran dry.
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If you want to make your job DIFFICULT, cut the female off and try to connect the PVC to the copper pipe. Make you life simple and use the brass nipple and almost any compression coupling to join the brass and PVC.
From the water meter, I have a 1" PVC pipe which is connected underground to a copper pipe leading to our house. The PVC male thread which attaches to the copper female thread has cracked causing a leak. The male connector is gray leading me to believe it is schedule 80. I would prefer not to use another threaded connection and have read several posts on this subject. I am interested in a Dresser-like connector with bolts to tighten but am not sure which specific one to purchase.
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2) Can anyone recommend a specific coupling to purchase?
3) Would it be better to attach a brass threaded nipple to the copper female to allow connection, per HJ, or would it be better to just cut off the copper female and connect to the copper pipe?
If you want to make your job DIFFICULT, cut the female off and try to connect the PVC to the copper pipe. Make you life simple and use the brass nipple and almost any compression coupling to join the brass and PVC.
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I went to Home Depot, Lowes, Ace and Ferguson's. Because the OD on the PVC pipe and copper pipe are not the same, I could not find a compression coupling that would work. If it fit on one side, it wouldn't fit on the other. None of the employees had any other ideas but to go back to the PVC male adaptor. Does anyone have specific names of couplings that would work?
You need to reread the part about using a brass nipple then the pipe is the same as the pvc pipe and use a brass "g" coupling to connect
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Oh yes. Forgot about the nipple. Back to the store.
quote; If it fit on one side, it wouldn't fit on the other.
THAT is what would have happened if you cut the female off the copper. That is also why I said doing that would make your life miserable.
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hj & MACPLUMB 777,
That's why we're here on the forum to get help from pros like you.... To keep from shooting ourselves in the foot.
Thanks for your help.
quote; To keep from shooting ourselves in the foot.
Unfortunately, many people ask the right question AFTER they have shot themselves in the foot. It is caused by not stopping before you reach your "level of incompetence".
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Here's the finished product. No leaks so far. The plastic thread broke in the copper female. It looks like they used PVC cement to screw in the male fitting. I used a torch to heat up the PVC, got a small screwdriver to wedge between the PVC and the copper female. Then I stuck needle nose pliers into the space and gave it a few turns and it came out.
quote; The plastic thread broke in the copper female.
They ALL do, well maybe not ALL, (yet), but a great many do. That is where I expect to find leaks, either at the house or at the meter. A plastic male adapter is the "weakest" fitting made. Threading reduces the wall thickness so they have ZERO tolerance for stress or flexing, and therefore they crack.
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Imagine if they spent a few pennies more, how much labor every year would be saved. You almost never see PVC broken anywhere else but at the end fittings.A plastic male adapter is the "weakest" fitting made.
Would consumers spend that little bit for a stiffer fitting. I know I do for other plumbing supplies. For instance, I don't carry galvanized nipples on the truck, it's all brass.
Do you think its a coincidence that 1"PVC and 1" Brass Nipple both have an identical OD of 1.315"????
You can't blame the builder on that. It's just what it is. They "don't" make a better PVC male adapter.
I built a few homes, and found that the profit margin was very slim. Nobody is going to pay 20% to 30% more for the same home with quality upgrades that they don't see or understand. I did that one the first one, and nobody understood what I was doing. I was just thinking out loud about what if they did make say a $3 male fitting instead of the 79 cent one. Would the plumbing shops stock them?


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George Miller Jr.: Old Dog, New Tricks
George Miller Jr. has been involved with Air Force foodservice for a long time—more than 45 years. But the chief of Air Force Food and Beverage Operations hasn't run out of ideas yet. At a time when other men might be contemplating retirement, Miller has launched a major program called the Food Transformation Initiative. Under the pilot program, Miller's department has contracted with Aramark to handle the foodservice at six Air Force bases.
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•Years in foodservice: 48
•Years at current job: 14
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George Miller Jr. has been involved with Air Force foodservice for a long time—more than 45 years. But the chief of Air Force Food and Beverage Operations hasn't run out of ideas yet. At a time when other men might be contemplating retirement, Miller has launched a major program called the Food Transformation Initiative. Under the pilot program, Miller's department has contracted with Aramark to handle the foodservice at six Air Force bases.
"Aramark was hired to provide the full foodservice scheme: new menus, new delivery processes and new training techniques," says Miller. "It's giving us more flexibility, such as expanding our hours of operation. We have gone from nine hours a day to about 12 or 13 hours, to allow people the ability to eat when they want. We're hoping for improved meal counts and higher quality of food items. Aramark can change out the menu more rapidly than we can. A college feeding operation is what we're driving ourselves toward."
That's a tall order for the Air Force, which has 276 dining facilities and flight kitchens, as well as more than 250 "non-appropriated"—meaning they receive no government funding—food and beverage operations at more than 100 Air Force installations around the world. But people who know Miller well are confident that if anyone can effect the transformation, he can.
An NCO during his 30-year military career—he retired as a chief master sergeant—Miller has steadfastly fought to improve the quality and the skills of the programs and the people in his charge. When he retired in 1993, he went to work for Old Country Buffet, only to return three years later as a civilian, full of ideas he could implement in Air Force dining facilities.
He has worked hard to make meals healthier for service personnel, to get more fresh food into more far-flung locales around the world and to streamline the whole process so that he could funnel more money into the food itself.
"The biggest challenge we have is finding money," Miller says. "We can't just say we need more funds. We have to show what we've been doing to reduce costs or to find better ways of doing things."
From butcher to cook: Cutting is something Miller understands; after all, at the time he enlisted in the Air Force, he had been trained as an apprentice meat cutter at a grocery store chain in the California Bay Area where he grew up.
"They put me in the foodservice career field when I enlisted, which made sense," he recalls. "But when I went to my first duty station, I was made a cook because the Air Force was phasing out meat cutters."
Not that young Miller minded.
"I thought it was pretty neat back then," he says. "I enjoyed it because it was something different. I got interested and so I stuck with it. I moved up through the field into management."
As he rotated through bases he became exposed to all the various types of foodservice carried out by this branch of the service. At F.E. Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wyo., he learned about feeding in the remote missile silos that were part of America's defense system. At Goose Bay, Labrador, in Newfoundland, he experienced flight line cooking, where meals were prepared for military support and, on occasion, commercial aircraft that landed there.
His first management role was for the Strategic Air Command, which he handled for several years out of Offut AFB in Nebraska. His last management role as an enlisted man was at Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Fla., where he was chief of the food management team for the entire Air Force.
"Our job was to teach and train foodservice personnel, regardless of command structure, and provide guidance and direction to all the policy makers," Miller explains. "We were moved out to San Antonio in a reorganization, and I retired here in 1993."
His post-Air Force life was relatively short-lived, however.
"In 1996, the Air Force was into a new training program, and the general in charge asked me to come back," he says.
As one might expect of someone who has had his hand in an institution for four decades, Miller has been responsible for much of how the Air Force conducts its foodservice business. He helped standardize menus throughout the service, a move he said was essential for an effective operation.
"We rotate our people very rapidly, and I realized we needed a streamlined process that could maintain itself when you have four or five people leaving an installation and four or five new people coming in," Miller notes. "A standard menu gives new people a chance to get their legs under them, because the menu is set and just continues to run day by day."
Five years ago, he helped established a wellness program called Fueling the War Fighter, an effort that he admits has met with some resistance.
"We've been trying to introduce a lot more healthy items into the operations," he says. "Baking items instead of frying them, reducing the amount of trans fats, and offering more fruits and vegetables and fish.
"We started out in our basic training facilities, trying to break bad eating habits early on, to at least give customers different alternatives and drive down the medical costs. I think it's working well; we haven't had any negative feedback or press. But it's hard to break a trend that some personnel have been doing since they were young. We can only give them the options. It's up to them to choose."
Honoring the troops: As someone who learned much of what he knows about foodservice in the Air Force, Miller has always taken a strong interest in the training aspect of foodservice. He says he wishes he could spend more time in the field with airmen.
"I like being out in the field, working with young people," he notes. "We do a lot of training, and I like getting in there with trainees. I will put on a chef's coat and get my hands in there with the flour or whatever and cook. They like to see that, and I enjoy talking with them."
That is one reason why the John L. Hennessey Award program, which Miller became involved with in 1973 when he was stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, is so special to him.
"The Hennessey program is probably the greatest selling point we have for our operations," he says. "It is the oldest Air Force awards program, started in 1957, and it has high visibility because of its association with the National Restaurant Association. We are involved with them. We sit on their committees and some of their boards, and they do a lot for us, such as training opportunities and venues for our troops."
The Hennessey Awards are chosen by a group of people called Hennessey Travelers, who visit all of the bases selected as finalists. Miller has been a Traveler seven times, an experience he calls "enjoyable."
"You see a lot of good things and a lot of young people doing an outstanding job," he says. "The competition is very keen; it's like the Super Bowl of foodservice."
Next steps: Much of Miller's time these days is spent monitoring the Food Transformation Initiative, which he says will be a major change for the Air Force if it is successful.
"Currently we rely on individual contracts for each base," Miller explains. "Some are where the contractor manages the entire operation, and others are food attendant contracts, where they handle cleaning, sanitation and some service. With each base having a contract, those costs quickly begin to escalate. We thought that a central contract should drive the cost of the contracts down.
"The other reason for the change is that the Air Force can't retool fast enough to keep up with all the trends and changes in the industry. By the time we get a new concept in, the industry has already moved down the road to two or three newer concepts, so we're always playing catch-up."
The relationship with Aramark has already had some side benefits for the Air Force, Miller notes.
"We're tweaking our menu worldwide, based on some of the things we've learned from Aramark," he says. "We've learned about some new products that we thought we never could introduce, and we're also looking at different ingredients, like spices, that we never thought about using but now make sense. So we're learning how to use them."
Whether the Air Force goes with centralized contracts, Miller says the service will not stop teaching personnel to cook; even under the Aramark contract, military personnel still do all the food prep.
By the same token, Miller will not stop coming up with new ways to improve the overall foodservice program.
"Right now, we're also tweaking our automated tracking system for food products," he explains. "Right now, I can tell you how many pounds of green beans we served yesterday in every Air Force facility around the world. I want to tweak that to where we can tell what kind of green beans we used: Fresh? Frozen? We could then use that information to leverage the market better, to get better prices for our products."
What Others Say About George
Dave Mickler, U.S. Air Force, retired:
Mickler, who worked with George Miller for five years at Tyndall AFB in Panama City, Fla., said Miller genuinely cares about the men and women under his command.
"The thing that stands out most in my mind is his concern for the young folks in the field. He was always stressing we had to make sure they were taken care of and that they had everything they need to do their jobs. He reminded us to never forget where we had come from, and to always work to do whatever we can to make things better.
He has so much knowledge and experience, he always seemed to have the answer to whatever we needed. Working with him was fantastic; we always seemed to be on the same page. He was quite a mentor to me."
Bill Spencer, chief, Air Force Food & Beverage Support Branch:
Spencer says his boss is all business on the job, and has never been one to back down from a fight.
"George's biggest asset is that he really cares about the troops. He is willing to fight for Air Force foodservice. When he goes to DoD (Department of Defense) meetings, he is not the type of person to just go along with what the group says. He will argue his point of view. But his knowledge makes him well-respected with the DoD arena, and often the things he fights for end up becoming DoD guidelines. He's very dedicated to the job. He gives up his leave every year because he wants to make sure that everything gets done, and that's not a move most people would care to do. Off the job, he is very easy to get along with, but on the job he is totally serious, and the job comes first."
Jim Kreuger, chief, U.S. Air Force food and beverage research and development:
Kreuger says Air Force foodservice succeeds because Miller runs it like a business.
"Four words I would use to describe George Miller are expertise, dedication, knowledge and commitment. He's been at this for a long time and he knows what works and what doesn't. A lot of times, going to someone who has been through something before can benefit you because of that. We hear a lot from people outside the military about 'new ideas,' and they don't realize sometimes that they aren't necessarily new, but that they are things that have been tried before and didn't work. George brings that experience of knowing what has been tried and what will work.
The other thing George has really worked on here is standardization of menus and procedures. We run Air Force foodservice like a major corporation, and the standards we've put in place ensure that everyone knows what's expected of them. It makes it easier for everyone involved, especially when we have to deploy. Everyone is on the same page."
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Bonnets at the ready for Radley Easter fair
11:00am Friday 11th April 2014
SUPPORT the Radley Common luncheon club this weekend with an Easter fair.
Match of the Day is all in the name of Parker
10:59am Friday 11th April 2014
CHILDREN at an Orford primary school took to the football field to raise money for charity. The youngsters at Beamont Juniors enjoyed a kickabout to raise money for Parker – the Great Sankey tot battling a rare form of cancer.
By George, it's fun
10:58am Friday 11th April 2014
A FUN day to celebrate St George's Day takes place in Longford next Saturday, April 19.
Easter fun at Radley Common on Saturday
11:09am Monday 7th April 2014
SUPPORT the Radley Common luncheon club this weekend with an Easter fair.
Residents meet
12:54pm Thursday 3rd April 2014
The next meeting of Longbarn Residents' Association takes place tonight, Thursday.
Clean up the park
12:53pm Thursday 3rd April 2014
HELP clean up Brickfields Park at a community litter pick on Sunday.
Date is set for Walking Day
12:52pm Thursday 3rd April 2014
PADGATE Walking Day will take place on June 21 this year, officials have announced.
Make a date
12:51pm Thursday 3rd April 2014
TALK over concerns in Poulton North with ward councillors at a surgery on Saturday.
The force is strong with these ones
12:50pm Thursday 3rd April 2014
iPads, video lessons, fingerprint scanners for school dinners.
Football crazy
12:47pm Thursday 3rd April 2014
Cash to clear park path needn't have been spent
12:46pm Thursday 3rd April 2014
Council pay the price for decision to allow woodland to spill over to fit in with 'natural' look
Disability sport day takes place in Orford
10:26am Thursday 3rd April 2014
Attic sale in Orford on Saturday
9:43am Tuesday 1st April 2014
A GRANNY'S attic sale takes place at St Andrew's Church in Orford on Saturday.
Beating Bowel Cancer collection at Tesco Extra on Winwick Road
8:42am Tuesday 1st April 2014
VOLUNTEERS are needed to help fundraise at Tesco Extra at Winwick Road on Friday.
Step out at a tap dancing class
11:56am Wednesday 26th March 2014
ARE you retired and looking for something to do in your spare time?
Get free support from family group
11:56am Wednesday 26th March 2014
We're on a road to somewhere in access only row
11:55am Wednesday 26th March 2014
RESIDENTS hope a long-running parking row can be solved after a political dispute was settled.
Pupils rewrite history with this line-up
11:54am Wednesday 26th March 2014
ROYALTY, tyrants, inventors and soldiers are not usually a group you would expect to find at a primary school.
Meditation, that's what you need
11:53am Wednesday 26th March 2014
TRY a meditation course for beginners at Orford Community Centre.
Friends rally to look after Parkfield
11:52am Wednesday 26th March 2014
A NEW group has been formed to help look after Parkfields Park.
Trees 'devastated' by thinning work
11:51am Wednesday 26th March 2014
RESIDENTS on Blackbrook Avenue say work to thin trees 'has gone too far'.
Pit bingo wits
3:26pm Wednesday 19th March 2014
Police praised in Poulton
3:26pm Wednesday 19th March 2014
THE work of police in tackling crime in Poulton and Fearnhead has been praised by the parish council.
Ideas to spruce up Brickfields
3:25pm Wednesday 19th March 2014
A WARD councillor is calling for improvements at Brickfields Park and on Orford Lane.
Junior rugby call
3:24pm Wednesday 19th March 2014
£1,500 windfall
3:23pm Wednesday 19th March 2014
CINAMMON Brow Residents' Association has received a £1,500 windfall to help with community work.
Daisies due at school
3:21pm Wednesday 19th March 2014
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Cure parking problems with access only rule
3:19pm Wednesday 19th March 2014
Residents call for council bosses to tackle Harpers Road issue
Table top sale on Saturday
12:05pm Thursday 13th March 2014
Roadworks causing congestion problem
2:59pm Thursday 13th March 2014
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MP sees red over traffic light row
2:58pm Thursday 13th March 2014
WARRINGTON North MP Helen Jones has waded into a traffic light row in Orford.
Pit your wits at residents' quiz
2:58pm Thursday 13th March 2014
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Apology over Harpers Road
2:57pm Thursday 13th March 2014
WARRINGTON Borough Council has apologised to parish council officials for not consulting over proposed changes to access to Harpers Road.
Lock up your valuables
2:56pm Thursday 13th March 2014
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2:14pm Thursday 13th March 2014
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Parish donates £50 to transport group
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Recent comments
Reply to: Boulder County has closed Lefthand Canyon
There are a couple spots near the intersection of Left Hand and Lee Hill that are gravel, but from the Fire Dept on to Peak to Peak, the road is fine.
Reply to: 2014 - Tour of Westcliffe
Long before you had a bike more expensive than your car, Mr. Flair had shoes more expensive than your house...
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Reply to: Boulder County has closed Lefthand Canyon
This shows the spots where they are doing more clean up with due dates for prior to May 1 and after May 1
What is the full ride up to Ward like? I cannot find any good descriptions of the current conditions.
Reply to: 2014 - Tour of Westcliffe
Have I mentioned how much I despise the random use of hashtags? Almost as bad as rampant selfies...
Reply to: 2014 - Tour of Westcliffe
I'll help. Here's the first post "I heard that the State Championships for the Road Race is now a pancake flat out and back course...ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME...Lame. I won't be driving out to West Cliffe and spending my money on a lame race like that. #epicfail"
When a few people replied, some less cordially than others (you know the typical response, if you don't like it, promote your own race, that sort of thing), this response was posted: "Challenge Accepted. We have already contacted BRAC. Colorado deserves a state championship road race it can be proud of not a 70mile Crit that 90% of people will have to drive 4hrs for. We had more elevation gain at the Colorado School of Mines Crit in 70min. Sorry"
I'm thinking someone's going to get a lesson in race promotion costs/headaches, if they follow through with their promise.


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The first Acura MDX arrived when most luxury SUVs still featured body-on-frame construction and the term "crossover" was but a glimmer in some marketer's eye. At the same time, the midsize MDX bettered other car-based luxury SUVs by offering a standard third row of seats that folded neatly into the cargo floor.
The second-generation MDX maintained that family-friendly packaging but spiced up the recipe with styling, performance and handling enhancements. Most significantly, this model had a more powerful engine and an all-wheel-drive system called Super Handling All-Wheel Drive (SH-AWD) that gave it notably athletic handling. The current, third-generation MDX goes a few steps further, with even more convenience features, better performance and higher fuel efficiency.
New or used, the Acura MDX is one of our top recommendations for a family-oriented luxury crossover SUV. In areas that are most important to the midsize luxury SUV consumer, such as comfort, versatility and refinement, the MDX excels. And with the second- and third-generation models, Acura offers an exciting driver's SUV that can easily be mentioned in the same sentence as BMW's X5 or Porsche's Cayenne.
Current Acura MDX
Introduced for 2014, the current MDX is once again a three-row luxury SUV that seats seven. It comes in a single, well-equipped trim level. Unlike previous generations, however, front-wheel drive is standard, with all-wheel drive (SH-AWD) available as an option. As such, those who don't need AWD have a less expensive and more fuel-efficient MDX to consider.
A 3.5-liter V6 with 290 horsepower and 267 pound-feet of torque, running through a six-speed automatic transmission, provides the power. As expected, the cabin is inviting. The second row seat slides forward with the touch of a button, easing access to the third-row seats that are roomier than before but still mostly ideal for kids. On the dash, a 7-inch touchscreen largely replaces the endless array of buttons that previously cluttered the center stack. With 15.8 cubic feet of cargo space behind its third row, the MDX trails its competition when all three rows are in use. However, its maximum cargo capacity of 90.9 cubic feet is impressive.
In reviews of this Acura MDX we've found it to be a polished performer, as it remains one of the more enjoyable luxury crossovers to drive. The steering (in normal mode) is lighter and gives this midsize luxury SUV a less connected feel than before. But a "Sport" mode changes this, providing notably better feel and response. The ride is commendable as well, being quieter at higher speeds and more forgiving over broken pavement than previously.
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The second-generation Acura MDX debuted for 2007 and ran through 2013. Apart from a refresh for 2010, changes were minimal. That refresh brought revised styling (which included the infamous corporate grille), a six-speed transmission (replaced the former five-speed unit), a hard-drive-based navigation system and a multi-angle back-up camera.
Compared to the first-generation model, this MDX provided sportier, more entertaining performance and handling characteristics along with respectable practicality. A 300-hp 3.7-liter V6 and a five-speed (later six-speed as noted above) automatic transmission provided spirited acceleration, while Acura's standard "Super-Handling" All-Wheel-Drive (SH-AWD) system improved both traction in bad weather and handling on dry pavement. The secret was its ability to transfer up to 100 percent of the power to just one wheel, depending on conditions. It also allowed the outer wheels to accelerate more quickly through a turn to give the MDX sharper handling on curvy roads.
Standard features were generous, and highlights included leather seating, a sunroof, a power tailgate, satellite radio, a rearview camera and Bluetooth phone connectivity. Optional highlights included a navigation system, an active sport suspension, adaptive cruise control, a blind-spot detection system and Acura's Collision Mitigating Braking System. The latter warns the driver (via visual and auditory warnings) if a collision seems imminent, and if it is, will automatically apply full braking power.
This MDX's mix of sport sedan handling and crossover utility certainly makes it one of the best picks for a used luxury SUV. The only weak point is the third-row accommodations. Though there's respectable room for children or smaller adults (certainly more than in the BMW X5), it isn't as roomy as large, non-premium brand crossovers such as the Buick Enclave/GMC Acadia or the Mazda CX-9. There is cargo space aplenty, however. When the third row is folded flat, there are 43 cubic feet available. Drop both the second and third rows and you'll have 84 cubic feet.
The first-generation Acura MDX bowed in 2001, sharing a unibody platform with the second-generation Honda Odyssey and the first-generation Honda Pilot. It came standard with a 240-hp 3.5-liter V6 and an all-wheel-drive system that automatically transferred power front and back for optimal grip. Three rows of seats were standard in this seven-passenger midsize SUV, and as with all Acuras, there was a high level of standard equipment. A touring package added an upgraded stereo, roof racks and dual power front seats. A navigation system was a stand-alone option.
In 2003, power was boosted by 20 horses. The chassis was also strengthened, the suspension retuned and the brakes upgraded. The navigation option became a package that included voice activation and a rearview camera. A DVD entertainment system became available. Power was upgraded again in 2004 to 265 hp, while the exterior and interior received a midlife freshening. Upgraded electronic features and improved materials brought the MDX's level of luxury closer to Acura's newer products. Meanwhile, side curtain airbags and a tire-pressure monitor increased the MDX's already impressive safety credentials. The 2005 model year saw the addition of standard satellite radio, available Bluetooth on Touring models and an upgraded navigation system. In 2006, new SAE horsepower testing procedures dropped output to 253, but real-world performance did not change.
At the time, our reviewers commented favorably about the MDX's seven-passenger capacity, top crash test scores and affordable price. Downsides included a below-average tow rating, ho-hum interior materials and a perceived lack of prestige compared to more elegant rivals like the BMW X5 and Lexus RX. Although this generation is getting rather old, a well-kept, lower-mileage example still makes for a smart family vehicle purchase. Keep in mind that later models have higher levels of luxury features and power. Also note that the first-generation Honda Pilot offers roughly the same package as the Acura. Though less luxurious, it featured slightly more interior room (giving it eight-passenger capacity) and, in comparable condition and similarly equipped, should be available for a lower price.
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With the purchase of a new Windows PC of $699 or more from Best Buy, Dell, HP, Newegg.com or Microsoft's online store, the Redmond, Wash., company will throw in an Xbox 360 video game console for free.
Apple is offering higher education discounts as well, with buyers of its Mac computers or iPads receiving gift cards which can be used toward content purchased through its App Store or iTunes programs.
Microsoft's deal ends Sept. 8, while Apple's offer is good through Sept. 21.
These deals require some sort of proof that the buyer is a college student, faculty or staff member. A valid email address ending in ".edu" or student ID number will usually suffice.
Teens can't live without their phones
How long could you live without your phone?
If you're a teen, you might not make it a week, says the company behind a recent survey of 600 13- to 17-year-olds.
Social media news site Mashable reported on Tuesday the findings of the survey conducted by textPlus, makers of a messaging app for mobile phones.
Half of teens surveyed said they couldn't go a week without their mobile phones. Thirty-six percent said they checked their phones once every 10 minutes, if not more.
The survey also found that the first and last thing most teens do each day is check their phones, with nearly three of every four respondents saying they glanced at their phones first thing in the morning and just before going to bed.
When it comes to all the things that mobile devices are now capable of doing, text messaging remains the most popular activity among teens, according to textPlus. Sixty-one percent of respondents said they couldn't live without the ability to send and receive messages.
Amazon.com tracking election through book purchases
Could the outcome of November elections be predicted by what Americans are reading?
It's a question Amazon.com is seeking to answer with the Amazon Election Heat Map, which the website rolled out Tuesday.
Amazon, best known as a retailer of books and Kindle e-reader devices, is tracking purchases of political books on its website from all 50 states and categorizing each book according to its political leanings.
At press time, Amazon's map showed 56 percent of buyers purchasing conservative-leaning or "red" books, covering all but six states and the District of Columbia. "Blue" books comprised the other 44 percent.
While Amazon admits the map may not be a reflection of how people will vote, the company in a statement on its website says "book purchases can reflect curiosity as much as commitment" in political conversation leading up to November.


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Friday, April 25, 2014
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told people with questions about Obamacare that "you'll have to pass the law in order to see what's in it," and she was right.
Even though the program doesn't fully become effective until 2014, the pressures are being felt now by businesses large and small, from Walmart to Applebee's restaurants to the Papa John's Pizza franchise.
U.S. employers are now "choosing strategies" to move forward under the new health care law (whose formal name is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), reporter Kara Spak wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times this week.
"Businesses are being forced to take a hard and fast look at how to handle the shift in health-care benefits and potential costs" that are part of the law, Spak writes.
As she notes, "By 2014, employers with the equivalent of at least 50 or more full-time workers will be required to provide health care for those who work 30 hours or more a week. If they don't, they'll have to pay a $2,000 penalty per employee after the first 30 workers (not the 59th)."
Also at issue are the establishment of health insurance "exchanges" at the state level designed to let people without insurance from their employers find it from other sources. The cost is estimated to vary from $10 million to $100 million per year, depending on the size of the state.
Some states, including Maine, have so far not established them. Friday deadline was put off for states to decide to either create their own or shift the task to the federal government, which has no money budgeted to cover their expenses, according to the libertarian Cato Institute.
Spak said it was originally thought that few employers would choose to pay the penalty, which is substantially less than the normal cost of providing insurance, or shift toward moving jobs from full-time to part-time to avoid the mandate.
But, she adds, "A survey by Mercer, a human resources and finance consulting group, showed that 18 percent of employers with any part-time employees are planning to adjust some hours so fewer employees work 30 hours or more a week."
According to Howard Rich, chairman of a free-market lobbying group, Americans for Limited Government, companies such as Darden Restaurants, which runs the Red Lobster, Olive Garden and Longhorn chains and employs 185,000 workers, and grocery chain giant Kroger Supermarkets, both have said they will limit some current part timers and new hires to a 28-hour work week.
And Betsy McCaughey, author of "Decoding the Obama Health Law" and a former lieutenant governor of New York, wrote this week in the New York Post that Obamacare's rules will add $1.79 per hour to the cost of each full-time employee. Opting to pay the fine instead will add 98 cents to the cost of labor, a figure that still would affect some employers' workforce decisions.
Since that would greatly reduce or even eliminate the profit margins many small businesses currently enjoy, analysts expect employment to drop and many workers to be forced to buy insurance in the new exchanges. There are penalties for individuals who refuse coverage, too.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can reject the law's mandate to finance an expansion of their Medicaid rolls, so fewer people are likely to be covered that way.
Meanwhile, the many Americans who realize capital gains from the sales of investments -- including the family homestead -- on Jan. 1 will face a new 3.8 percent tax on their profits.
Additionally, bureaucratic costs to enforce the new law are estimated by federal sources to climb by $40 billion per year by 2020.
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Well, it is about time someone got to be in office that can do Belleville some good. Mayor Mark Eckert found out that the young people do know more than he thought. Yes, City Clerk Dallas Cook knows what has to be done and is doing it.
Eckert is not the big boss that everyone thinks he is.
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Police searching for missing Kane woman
By Stephanie Lulay and Matt Hanley slulay@stmedianetwork, firstname.lastname@example.com August 22, 2012 6:00PM
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Police are searching for a 20-year-old Kane County woman who left home on Sunday but never arrived at Illinois State University.
According to the Kane County Sheriff's Office, Tanner Conroyd left her home on Route 31 near St. Charles around noon on Sunday. Police said Conroyd's father believed she was heading back to school at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal.
Her family contacted her friends at ISU, but none of them had seen her at the school, police said. Her family reported her missing to police in Normal on Sunday evening.
Police have been able to verify that Conroyd did make several stops on Sunday and Monday, but have not been able to locate her since she was last seen in Chicago on Monday.
According to police:
Conroyd left her house about noon on Sunday after an argument with family members. Her father believed she was headed for ISU, where she planned to attend the fall semester but had not yet enrolled as a student.
Her older sister, 29-year-old Taylor Conroyd, was at her father's house when Tanner left. Tanner was unusually combative, her sister said, and left her cellphone at the house, perhaps by accident.
"(Tanner) was upset and wanted to go back to school," Taylor said. "She was discussing some family issues, and we were trying to stall her (from leaving) until we knew she was calm."
At about 1 p.m., Conroyd got gas at the BP station on Route 47 in Sugar Grove. An employee at the station said Conroyd prepaid for her gas. She was alone and parked her car at the first pump. The clerk said Conroyd seemed happy, almost hyper.
At about 1:30 p.m., she was seen at the Brown Pub in Hinckley. Police say she stayed there for about three hours after her car broke down. (An attendant at the BP station said they did not have any of the tainted gasoline which has caused car problems in Illinois and Indiana in the past week.) Conroyd asked for help from a father and son who lived in the area. When the attempt to fix the car was unsuccessful, she asked them for a ride to the Aurora Transportation Center in downtown Aurora and said she would take the train to Union Station in Chicago. An employee at the Brown Pub declined to comment Wednesday evening.
Conroyd was next seen at Millennium Park in Chicago. She spoke to a security guard at Millennium Park around 10:30 p.m. Sunday as the park was closing. She appeared to be by herself. Conroyd provided the guard her cellphone number so he could call her to make sure she got home safely.
The security guard called her phone and older sister Taylor answered the phone, which was left at home.
"He was concerned because she was upset, agitated," Taylor said. Conroyd told the man she was either attacked or someone tried to steal her guitar, her sister said.
Police said Conroyd was seen in Millennium Park again on Monday. Family said the last confirmed sighting of Conroyd was at 5:30 a.m. Monday in the 100 block of West Adams Street, near the park.
Taylor Conroyd said she had no idea why her sister would be in Chicago. She knew one person there, but that person was out of town at the time Conroyd disappeared, her sister said, and she's only been to the city once or twice.
'Out of character'
Police said Conroyd was wearing a pink shirt with blue Capri pants and gold-framed glasses. She is white, 5-foot-6, about 160 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. She is also believed to have been carrying a red guitar possibly in a soft-sided case, police said.
The vehicle she was driving — a white 1995 Ford Crown Victoria — was found near the Brown Pub in Hinckley on Wednesday, but it appears the car had been there since Sunday, police said.
"We know she took that route to school before, but based on everything we were getting, we didn't expect to find a car there," Kane County Lt. Pat Gengler said. "We expected everything to be in Chicago."
Gengler said Conroyd's family said her actions this past week were "quite odd." Her family is concerned she may be suffering from some sort of psychological issue.
Her family believes she may be near a park, library, anything related to music, a museum or college campus.
"This is definitely out of character for her to do something like this," Gengler said. "(Conroyd) had no history of disappearing."
Conroyd's mother lives in St. Charles. Her father lives in unincorporated Kane County near St. Charles, Gengler said.
According to a Twitter account registered under her name and picture, Conroyd started a music website with a friend. She began blogging on Aug. 12 and posted five times since then. On Aug. 15, a blog post signed "Tanner" noted her excitement about heading back to Illinois State University and asked new band members to find her when she got to campus. Conroyd played the flute.
In another post put up at 6:30 a.m. Aug. 15, she talks about how her music had inspired her.
"You may be wondering, 'Wasn't Tanner just up around 2:00 am and now it's 6:30 am. Does this girl ever slow down?' " it says in the post signed Tanner. "Well, I suppose that I want as many hours of each day as I can. I milk them for all they're worth."
Gengler said the family has done a lot of their own canvassing and posted fliers at Millennium Park.
Kane County detectives are working with Illinois State Police and Normal police. Investigators have not ruled out foul play.
"(Tanner) believes people are good. She's one of those great, positive people," sister Taylor Conroyd said.
The family has set up a Facebook page at Find Tanner Conroyd.
Anyone with information on Conroyd is asked to call Kane County sheriff's detectives at 630-444-1103.


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I had some left over onions, peppers and tomatos from the bloody mary mix and decided to use them with a piece of sirloin steak. Was great!
As usual this is the original recipe.... but I added garlic, didn't have celery and made more than called for!
1 pound beef top sirloin steak
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2 to 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, divided
2 small onions, thinly sliced and separated into rings
1 green pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
2 celery ribs, sliced diagonally
2 tomatoes, cut into wedges
Hot cooked rice
Partially freeze beef.
Thinly slice across the grain into bite-size strips; set aside. For sauce, combine soy sauce, water and cornstarch; set aside. heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet or wok over high heat. Stir-fry half of the beef until browned. Remove and repeat with remaining beef, adding additional oil as needed. Remove meat and keep warm.
Add onions, green pepper and celery to pan; stir-fry until crisp-tender, about 3-4 minutes. Return beef to pan. Stir the sauce; add to pan. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Add tomatoes; cook just until heated through. Serve over rice.
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Tennessee educational institutions share $780,000 grant to boost energy efficiency
NASHVILLE (AP) — Northeast State Community College and three other Tennessee educational institutions will divide a $780,000 grant to fund energy efficiency projects.
Gov. Bill Haslam and Department of Environment and Conservation Commissioner Bob Martineau announced this week that the projects are designed to reduce air emissions, improve energy efficiency and create cost savings.
The University of Memphis and Tennessee Technological University will each get $250,000, Northeast State Community College will receive $180,000 and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is getting $100,000.
The Clean Tennessee Energy Grant program provides financial assistance to state and local government agencies, utility districts, and private businesses/ organizations in Tennessee to purchase, install and construct energy projects.


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Tea Rose
64 Piece Dinnerware Set
Tea Rose offers traditional romance with a touch of the English countryside. Scalloped edges and the delicate beauty of watercolor roses add grace to every dining occasion. Microwave and dishwasher safe. 64 piece set, service for sixteen, includes (16) each: 10-1/2 inch dinner plate, 7-1/2 inch salad plate, 12 ounce soup/cereal bowl, and 12 ounce mug.